Admission-valve and valve-actuating mechanism for gas-engines.



G. B. PETSOHE;

ADMISSION VALVE AND VALVE AGTUATING MECHANISM FOR GAS ENGINES. I

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 9, 1905.

905,224, Patented Dec. 1,1908.

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WITNESSES G. B. PETSGHE.

ADMISSION VALVE AND VALVE ACTUATING MBGHANISM FOR GAS ENGINES.

' APPLICATION FILED JAN. 9, 1905.

905,224. Patented Dec. 1,1908.

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144 ATTORNEY.

G. B. PETSGHE.

ADMISSION VALVE AND VALVE ACTUATING MECHANISM FOR GAS ENGINES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN.9,1905.

Patented Dec. 1, 1908.

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PATENT OFFICE.

eusrAv B. PETSGHE, or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA,

car & MACHINE sour-ANY; or PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION o PENNSYLVANIA.

nSSIGNOR; T SOUTHWARK FOUN- ADMISSION VALVE AND VALVE-AGTUATING MECHANISM FOR GAS-ENGINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 1, 1908.

Application filed- January 9, 1905. fierial No. 240,151.

'To all whom it may concern:- 7

Be it known that I, GUs'rAv B. Pn'rsonn, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing inthe city and county .of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania,'have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in .Ad-mission Valves and Valve Actuating Mechanism for Gas-Engines, of which the following is a true and exact description, 10 reference being had .to the accompanying drawings, which form a part thereo My invention relates to gas engines and particularly to the construction and mode of operation of the admission valves by which a r and gas are admitted to the ders.

The object of my inventionis to provide simple and: eificient admission valves and, to generally improve the mode of operating such valves, and the natureof my improvements'w'ill be best understood as described in connection with. the drawings in which they are illustrated and in which- Figure 1., is a side elevation of a gas engine of the four cycle type, embodying my improvements. Fig. 2', is a side elevation on an enlarged scale of one of the cylinders with the valve mechanism appurtenant thereto. Fig. 3, is a cross-section through the cylinder' and valves, taken as on the line 3-45 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4, a perspective view of thereciprocating cams by which my valves are actuated in the construction illustrated. a Fig. 5, is an. enlarged detail view showing a featime of construction which is'not shown In Fig; 3 on account ofrthe small scale of that drawing.-v Figs. 6' to" ,9, are diagrammatic illustrating the general system for 0penating the valves and for efiecting a proper 40 regulation of the admission.

A, indicates the base on which the engine issupported; A, the housing for the main shaft, a blowing engine .also supported thereon. at the engine, A A, the supports for the eng'l 11&-- cylinders. AM, A a support for the outer end of the piston rod. A3, A, the distance pieceintervening between the two cylillustrated.

11 are supported engine cylinbeing illustrated as- A", the mainbed of.

are the eylinders of the en e.

,andG, the admission va' ves;

two brackets indicated at B B etc., these brackets in turn supporting guideways E, E, etc., in which are formed parallel guides E, E and from which guides E, extend the bearings E, E which support the pivot pins indicated at E The guidecastings E, as shown, are also used to support the'upright standards indicated at B B etc. Pivoted on the pivot pins E, are the two sets of rock levers F, F F and F", and G, G G and G.

H, H, etc., are cam carrying guides moving in the-guideways E, and E and secured to and actuated by the two sets of rods indicated at H, and H four of the slides being secured to each rod in the construction shown; the mode of securing indicated being through nuts H, which permit the adjustment of the slides on the rods. The-two rods H, and H are connected through rods H with the rock levers indicated at H, and

H and which, in turn, are connected ranged sothat one lies in the same transverse plane with each standard B K, K, etc., indicate the admission valve .casin s which, as shown, are formed with air cham ers K, having valve seated ports K, leading into the engine cylinder and chambers K which extend down into the ,airchambers in an annular ring as indicated at. K so" as tosurround and inclose', except at the bottom, a supplemental air chamber K the upper part of which is in free communication with the main air chamber K, through ports indicated at K". p

K, indicates. a guideway extending through the center of as shown, V guides a sleeve spindle L, the lower end of which. supports through the arms L an annular valve L which is adaptedto open and close the port leading from the annular gas chamber K. To theuqgperjendof the sleeve spindleis scoured the and the valve is held to its gas ead indicated at L the air chamber K, the guide'way K, supports and seat by resilient the valve M,

valves are connected with 5o ,actuated by the cams.

' I will state here that the general ling of course those which tion of the engine have apportioned to them claimed in this application,

pressure provided by a spring indicated at J.

Through the center of the sleeve spindle L, passes the spindle M, to the lowerend of which is attached the main valve which opens and closes the port K, while to the top of this spindle M, is secured the head M at a point which, when both the valves M, and L, are seated will result in leaving a clearance between the heads L, and M, of an eighth of an inch or thereabouts. By preference I use a spring J, acting to hold to its seat.

A. trunnioned collar M, M, is secured to the top of the head M by-anut indicated at M and the trunnions Mt, are engaged by the forked ends of clever, arm N, secured to one end of a rock shaftlP, which is supported in the standards B and I, and the other end of which is, connected throu h, a lever N", with a link N, havin a slide lilock at its lower end, as indicate at N, said slide blocks being engaged with the slotted segments indicated at F, and G the segments F, being secured to members of the rock lever set marked F, F et'c,, and the segments G etc, being secured to members of the rock lever set marked G, G1 etc, the rock levers'provided with these segments be in the organizathe work of operating the inlet valves. N, N etc, indicate pivot pins attached to the links N, N and connected with the rods S and S, which, see Fig. 1, are connected together through the rock lever 8, while the rod S is connected through the bellcrank lever S, with the governor indicated at S.

The construction of the exhaust valves D, D etc, is indicated in Fig. 3, P, indicating the valve casing, P, a detachable cylindrical bearing for the valve, P adetachable exhaust connection provided with a valve seat P Q, is .the valve having a cylindrical portion guided in the guidewayP, and a valve portion Q R, R, etc., indicate rods by which the the rock levers The cam surfaces secured on the blocks H, are indicated at U, U, etc., for the front series of slides actuated by the rod H, and at W, W etc, for the rear series actuated by the rod H Before going further with the description system oi valve actuation thron h ciprocating cams, whi e new with me, is not subject matterof my application Serial hlumber 238,917 filed December 30, 190i and also that the exhaust valve, construction illustrated in Fi 3 is not claimed in this a plicatlon as it dorms the subject matter at my the two sets of re- *1 but forms the ceases eccentrics H, and H, during one complete cycle of operation of the engine, corresponding to a double reciprocation of the lstons,

the eccentrics making one revolution. or each I two revolutions of the main shaft.

Passing to the special valve arrangementillnstrated in Figs. 3 and 5, it will be seen that when the appro riots cam at the proper time actuateh throng ithe rock lever N the valve opening in lever N, that the valve M. will first open permitting the air from the chamber K, to pass into the cylinder, the

further downward movement of the head M", at the top of the valve spindle bringing it into contact with the head L and depressing the valve spindle L, and through it opening theluunular valve L, which permits the gas to pass into the chamber K, and mixed with the air to pass into the engine cylinder. The effectual mixture is further permitted by the annular form of the gas outlet and the fact that air is admitted to and through the supplemental air chamber K, so that thegas esca es in an annular jet sandwiched, so to speak, etween a core of air and. a jacket of air. On thercverse' motion of the valve actuating lever N, the valves move up together, but the spring J, acting on the gas valve brings it to its seat before the main valve M, closes the admission port. Therefore a certain amount of air unmixed with gas passes into the cylinder at the end of the inlet portion so that the portion of the port left below the valve M, contains in effect all not an explosive mixture.

The regulation of the engine is effected through the governor acting on the slide blocks N, and adjusting them toward or from the centers E", of the lovers to which the slotted segments are secured. The effect is of course to effect a throttling of the air and gas. I would further call attention to the simplicity and general edectiveness of the mechanism by which the motion of the cams is in the construction illustrated communicated to the valves, the employment of the rock shafts N, enabling me to use comparatively short rock levers, and to arrange them so that they areas little in the way as possible.

Having now described my invention, what claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

1. In a gas engine, an admission valve casing having an air chamber K, an annular gas 0 amber K. K, extending into said air chamber K; and forming an mteriocchamber K, open channels priming through the annular gas chamber establishing communilio - means for actuating said va port from the chamber K cation between the air chamber K and the airy chamber K, in combination with a main valve M, arranged to open and close the to the cylinder an annular valve L, arranged to open and; ose the 'exit port of the annular gas chamber and ves. 2. In a gas engine, an admission valve casing having an air chamber K, an annular gas chamber K K extending into said air chamber K, and forming an interior cham- .ber'K, open channels passing through the annular gas chamber establishln communication between the air chamber and .the air chamber K, in combination with a main valve M, arranged tovopen and close the port from the chamber KQ'to the cylinder, a valve secured 0, 35 I valve stem M, attache'dto said valve and extending through the casing, an annular. valve L, ar-

ranged to open and close .the'exit on of the annulargas chamber, a sleeve stem ,attached to said valve and surroundin stem M, a head to stem M, abdve the end of sleeve stem L, and at a point which results in the clearance between said head'and the end of the sleeve stem when valves M, and-L, are arranged to. draw stem L, upward and to c ose valve. L, and means -for reciprocating stein- M, and through it depressing stemlL.

n a gas engine having an admission casing with air and gas chambers a port lead from'the air "chamber to the cylinder an a port from the gas chamber to the air chamber, the combinationtherewith of a main valve controlling the port to the c linder and having t e casing,

40 d'valjve stem,

the mam valve stem communicate motion to a stem lea'ding a gas valve, for g cure to a sleeve stem surrounding the main means-whereby the-motions of through i the sleeve stem shortly after the main valve is opened and solthat the gas valve opens after and closes beforethe main'valve, means for moving valve stem synchro- -the main nouslywith the movements of the piston, and

' means whereby the extent of such movement -main valve is opened, a reci the gas port Se-r nection moving in each so" andmeans connectmg'sm and the consequent opening of the gas valve can be varied.

cylinder and a ort from the gas chamber to the air cham r, the combination therewith of a main valve controlling the ort to the cylinder and having a stem lea ing through the casing, a gas valve for the gas port secured to a sleeve stem surrounding the main valve stem, a head secured to the main stem so as to,lie a short distance above the end of the sleeve stem when both valves are closed and to come in contact with and depress thesleeve and its valve after the v procating cam moving in fixed relation wlth the piston movements, a lever actuated by said cam andhavin a guide segment secured thereto, arock s aft N extending transversely to the cylinder, a lever N, secured to one end of said shaft and connected to the segment by a link and slide block,a lever N secured to the other end of the rock shaft andconnected to the top of the main-valve spindle, and

means foradjustin-g the slide in the segment to the valves.

5. In a gasengine having two sets of reci rocatlng cams actuated by eccentrics or t e like moving in fixed relation to the movements of the piston, the combination of a series of levers each actuated byone of. said cams, and

connected to actuate the engine valves, a guide segment securedto each lever connected with an inlet-valve and forming a art of the valve actuatingAonnect-ion, a sli e block also forming a part of .the valve actuating com ent,-a governor, ver'nor with the slideblocksito'shift them a 1 simultaneously in their segment'a' f v GUSTAV 'B.'PE'1 S;CHE.

Witnesses:

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' D. STEWART." 

